Carole Lombard .org

So, a few weeks back I did a post saying how Carole with an “E” actually came before “Carol.” I said “more will be revealed” and more has. Meet CARROLL PETERS.

In a 1932 interview with The Oakland Tribune, Carole discusses working on A Perfect Crime and mentions: “It was shortly before this opportunity came along that I had my name changed. A numerologist, a friend of my mother’s, worked out my numbers because she knew how much I hated my name. I was Jane Alice Peters. I never felt like a Jane, and was pleased when I was presented with the name of Carole!”

“Jane seemed to me a girly sort of girl, who did girly things, and I was a tomboy of tomboys.”

I initially thought she must have been mistaken seeing as how she is credited as “Jane Peters” in the film. But after a little research it appears that once again I am in the doghouse.

Though she may have been credited as “Jane Peters,” trade publications and newspapers from 1921 carry a certain little photo still* with a caption that reads:

Scene from: “The Perfect Crime.” James Brown is surprised by a call from his little sister. Monte Blue as James Brown, Carroll Peters as little sister.”

Well I’ll be damned. Anyways, just for fun here is another one to throw in the ringer:
Carole’s parent’s “got together” at a wedding where Elizabeth was one of the bride’s maids and Frederick was the groom’s best man. The wedding was for a Mr. and Mrs. Lumbard.

Yup. Lumbard. NOT Lombard. (It’s not a typo, I checked- a lot).

I think I need some rest lol.

*The Photo Still above is merely a substitute for the one I was referring to. The copy I have is of horrendous quality made worse by my temporarily disabled scanner. I apologize.